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Summary: Fun Quick Read
Review: This book, which although the author says it is not autobiographical, we all know it is based on her experiences. This book makes my horrible boss stories seem like nothing. I do believe their are Miranda's out there, and enjoyed reading this poor women trying her best to deal with her unreasonable demands.. ha ha ha
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Summary: Light 'N Frothy Fun
Review: I checked DWP out from our public library the day before I went into the hospital for surgery because it appeared to be the perfect bit of light reading. Knowing that I couldn't handle a difficult read while under the influence of pain medication, I dug in and found it to be just what I was looking for. Look forward to reading about fashion, a more than demanding boss, and her naive new employee who just can't understand why her employer is such a [witch.] The close of this book is predictable and I flowed through this novel in a couple of days while dozing off between chapters. Enjoyable, but not serious, so take it for what it is.
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Summary: Devilish Fun
Review: It's light, it's fun... I loved it! Working for a nut like Miranda is anyone's worst nightmare. Since I've had bosses like that, I can totally relate. I think Ms. Weisberger has a witty way of describing her experiences. I'm definitely looking forward to her next book.
Another good story about someone with 'work issues' is Lenny Castellaneta's No One's Even Bleeding.
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Summary: A Waste Of Time
Review: I'll read anything. If it's printed, I'll read it. But I gotta tell you, I got half-way thru this book, and I gave up. Miranda Priestly is a boss from hell. Everyone around her jumps thru hoops to keep her happy. The main character, Andrea, spends all her time at work running errands and living in fear of Miranda. Who in their right mind would do that, just so they could get a shot at working at ANOTHER magazine? If you want to read about numberous trips to the coffee shop, the cleaners, putting up with irritating doormen, and not much else, this is the book for you. But after reading 175 pages of Andrea's errands, that was all I could take.
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Summary: "An-dre-ah" is definitely NOT from the south....
Review: I can't imagine any southern belle worth her baton and tiara reading more than 50 pages of this book. I finished only because I was supposed to review it, but egads and little fishes, it is bad. No southern belle would put up with 11 minutes, much less 11 months of not being able to (1) leave her desk (2) speak unless spoken to or (3) eat lunch ... just so she could be at the beck and call of her self-important, puffed up, manaical boss, even if HERself was the 'most important woman in fashion.' The author completely lost me when Andrea had to go get more coffee because what she had broken her neck to bring to the office was cold and when her boss screamed at her to hurry it up with her $92 lunch, only to order her to toss it because she had already eaten with someone else. Having a pilot fly across the Atlantic just so the boss' twin daughters could each have their own Harry Potter books three days before the release date was a bit over the top. The final scene (no spoiler here, because you KNOW the girl has GOT to develop a backbone at SOME point before the tale is over) is no big whoop, either. A southern belle woulda caused such a fuss...it woulda been the talk of the town for years to come when "the boss" finally got what was coming to her. I guess that's why America's fashion elite gather in the Big Apple and not Atlanta. We wouldn't stand for such nonsense down here. If like is really like this in the fashion industry, there's something seriously wrong....seriously.
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Summary: Redundancy and spineless women
Review: The book-jacket description makes the book sound 10 times better than what it turns out to be. I was hoping for a somewhat interesting account of Andrea's stint as Miranda's lackey. Funny wasn't anywhere in the picture either. I couldnt even find Miranda's constant bitchiness & outright game playing amusing. Maybe it was just the bland style of delivery from the author. It seemed like wordy whining. You could almost predict what fit Miranda would throw after Andrea would spend all her morning on an errand, phone call, food-run, etc for her boss. If she made a date with friends or her boyfriend, you knew her boss would ruin it like she did in the previous 10 chapters. What I found most interesting is that no one could speak up for themselves. I was amazed at these spineless assistants. I can imagine it happens in the real world, but it makes for a boring book to constantly read about the main character getting shredded at every turn. The book would have been alot more interesting if more of these women callenged their boss and had a voice. Andrea's co-worker Emily is pretty pathetic. The redundancy got boring real fast.
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Summary: Devilish Dud.
Review: I was eager for a fun, summer page-turner, but this book made me more bummed out than relaxed. The writing is terrible, and at the end, I felt a little dumber for having actually read the entire novel.
While the story about working for a crazy boss was somewhat engaging, and something most people can probably relate to, the character of Miranda seemed to be the only fully thought out and realized persona. The author didn't seem to know where she was going or where she was taking her protagonist. The "character development" was Less Than, and the ending seemed extremely rushed. I won't spoil the ending for those who have yet to read it, but I'll just say that it was not very believable that these characters would be acting in this way. It just baffles me that a piece of writing that probably wouldn't even generate a passing grade in Freshman Creative Writing 101 would actually be published! Wow!
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Summary: Zzzzzzz
Review: This is one book of probably three in my life that I simply could not finish. It could not hold my interest, and I was not drawn to any of the characters enough to get past the 3/4 point. You know how you and your girlfriends go through your early 20's focused narrowly on yourselves? For outsiders, it's torture to listen to the endless prattle. This reminded me of that phase. We get waaaaay too much detail about the lead characters banal, everyday movements and thoughts, which are compelling only to her. The more interesting book would provide, of course, the fly-on-the-wall perspective on the editor-in-chief's life. As it stands in this book, we only get tiny histrionic bits and glimpses of the most potentially interesting character. It's all just too dull.
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Summary: Hilarious, for those who get it.
Review: The Devil Wearas Prada was a scream. The story focuses on a young girl in Manhattan, working her first real job after college, working for a horrible, horrible woman. This may sound boring, but Andrea's sarcasm and wit kept me interested all the way through. It was easy to relate to her loathing for the fashion industry, her disgust at being frowned upon for being an enormity at size 6... It was easy to read, a good book for the summer.
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Summary: Perfect summer reading
Review: It look less than a day in a beach chair in Hawaii to finish this fun, trashy read. It's the perfect mindless read for summer.
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